st: Re: xtpmg installation

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It is, nevertheless, useful to get your Proxy Settings correctly
established for on-campus use, as otherwise simple commands like
'webuse foo' will not work either. Furthermore you will be unable to
readily establish whether you have the latest version of user-written
routines using -adoupdate-, and waiting until you can do this off-
campus may waste time. Under Preferences->Internet, click 'connect
through a proxy server' and enter the appropriate URL and port number
given by your IT staff.

Following what you indicated below about most UK universities and
the behaviour of the Stata 'net' command (and you are right, I was
trying to do the installation on campus), instead I tried
installing xtpmg off-campus and it has worked !!